GEORGE CLOONEY - CLOONEY URGES VOTERS TO JUDGE HIS DAD FAIRLY

Hollywood hunk GEORGE CLOONEY is urging voters to judge his father NICK on his own political merits - not because he's the father of a movie star.

In a piece which recently appeared in Ohio's CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, the OCEAN'S ELEVEN star asks the voting public to judge his Kentucky Democratic congressional candidate dad fairly.

He says, "(Opponents have said) that because of me, my father and I will 'go down with my ship' - a reference to a film I made called THE PERFECT STORM."

Clooney then suggests other ways to incorporate his movie and TV titles into smear-campaign tactics.

He adds, "BATMAN and his father are gonna be taught THE FACTS OF LIFE about Kentucky politics. THE PEACEMAKER and his old man have been campaigning FROM DUSK TILL DAWN to prove that a deficit that's OUT OF SIGHT can hurt your pay-cheque.

"Nick Clooney is a grown man and he can take his own hits... but it'll be ONE FINE DAY before he should take mine too."